How to Use sanatorium in a Sentence

sanatorium

noun
  • Any coast in a storm, then, and onward to the sanatorium.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Kalari Rasayana has the feel of a sanatorium merged with a strict boarding school.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Kalari Rasayana has the feel of a sanatorium merged with a strict boarding school.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Stevenson’s stay had put the mountain sanatorium on the map.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Steinem took care of her mother, who struggled with depression and spent time in sanatoriums.
    — Donna Larcen, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Her luck seems to change when she is sent to a sanatorium on an island, but a mysterious lady warns her about it.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • This led her to an image of a sanatorium with balcony railings that looked just like the one in the picture of Yvonne.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • At the sanatorium, the architecture itself was part of the cure.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
  • The older novel follows a young man’s lengthy stay at Davos, a Swiss sanatorium.
    — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Rappe spent three days in the hotel room, her pain dulled with morphine, before she was finally transferred to a sanatorium.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The ongoing war is not a focus of the doc but rears its ugly head like a pin threatening to burst the sanatorium bubble when the alarms go off.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Two days later, Svitlana and Serhii crept along the sanatorium’s fence, searching for the men.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The sanatorium was closed and badly damaged during a bloody civil war in the 1990s.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Open-air prophylaxis was available to paying clients at a sanatorium, but not the families of workers or the poor.
    — Daniela Blei, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 25 miles from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
    — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Some faced less lethal forms of persecution, such as Käthe Abels, who ran a small sanatorium outside of Berlin.
    — Samuel Huneke, CNN, 2 June 2022
  • His latest idea was that the sole existing joint photograph of Jeanne and Yvonne had been taken at the sanatorium in Leysin.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 40km (25 miles) from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
    — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In 1930 she was taken forcibly to a Swiss sanatorium, where she was treated by Sigmund Freud.
    — Toyin Owoseje, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
  • What to make of Lucrécia, what to make of his wife who was embroidering in the sanatorium and would ask for red thread and lift her head hopefully when her husband arrived.
    — Benjamin Moser, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The center first opened in 1908 and was a sanatorium for people with tuberculosis.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Portugal’s first mountain resort was built at Casa das Penhas Douradas, which later served as a sanatorium.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The image was taken at the Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium in the mountains of Tajikistan.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • For decades, thousands of ethnic Georgians have lived in the formerly majestic sanatoriums of Tskaltubo.
    — Laura Fornell, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • But Rowlands told her husband that playing such a role each night on stage would either kill her or send her to the sanatorium, so the director wound up turning the play into a feature-length film.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Two days later, HUR relocated the men to a sanatorium in the woods outside Minsk.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • His mother sent the aimless youth to a chalet in the Austrian Alps which served as a combination university and sanatorium.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The fate of the other 11 children also taken from the Mariupol sanatorium to the Donetsk clinic is not known.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Elin Warner must find her estranged brother's fiancée, who goes missing as a storm approaches a hotel that was once a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
    — New York Times, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • My favorite hike happened to start at my favorite hotel, Rooms Kazbegi, an old Soviet sanatorium that’s been given a glow-up.
    — Lori Rackl, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026

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